Newspaper Style Lettering for Classroom Displays
Choosing lettering for specific styles of classroom displays can be tricky. Sometimes printed lettering just won’t do the job but that doesn’t mean the computer can’t help you. One of the members of the Classroom Displays Group wanted to know where she could get letter stencils for newspaper style titles for a corridor display advertising their LRC. (Learning Resource Centre). She didn’t want to spend ages in Publisher but like most people who make displays she’s quite handy with a craft knife. I had a quick look through my favourite sources for stencils but came up blank. That was until I found a site that’s ideal for classroom displays lettering.
Alphabet Patterns
These are pre-formatted pdf files of alphabets in various fonts that you download and print out.
Wide range of styles (including some famous and topical ones!)
Suitable for craft projects and displays.
You select the size you want.
Costs start from around $5 for an alphabet pack. That’s quite a bit cheaper than trying to buy them pre-cut and would save hours of formatting even if you did have the right font on your computer.
You could print them out and photocopy onto transparencies or card. (If you use card maybe laminate them).
I’d get the largest size (6″). If you needed even larger letters remember you can always blow them up to A3 on the photocopier.
Cut carefully using a rotary cutter you would then have both positive and negative stencils
They have a range of suitable fonts of which my favourite for this job would be Book antiqua
As this display is for a high school you could have a bit of fun with the style of it. How about copying the headline styles and even the layout of some of the tabloid newspapers? The people who design them know a great deal about catching the eye and the interest of passing readers. This could even form the basis of a series of displays, what do you think?
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